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More than 20 Bulgarians have complained of being victims of scammers who voluntarily gave them access to their computers.
A Varna businessman burned himself with 200,000 euros, which he allegedly invested on the orders of cybercriminals. The plan has been in place for several years, and CDCOC’s Cybercrime Department disbanded two gangs before a new one emerged.
The cheating with the man happened 2 months ago. He received a phone call. On the other hand, it was dialed through Internet telephony. They started telling you in English how successful investment firms are and how they can make a lot of money together. The 40-year-old man who sold real estate was seduced. He asked to participate.
Then the criminals told him to download the anydesk program. With it, they gain remote access to your computer. The man did so and watched in real time the software being installed on his laptop, ostensibly for investment.
Initially
invested 10,000
euros. You told him,
that won
25,000 discount on the promotion
by Space Ex,
one of Elon Musk’s companies. The man has invested multiple times, allegedly making a profit from Apple stock. Thus, his account showed that he already has more than 2 million euros.
However, when he decided to withdraw the money, the thieves explained that he had lost everything in binary options. They have two options: for example, with a bet of 100 dollars that the euro will rise, you win another 75. However, if the price goes down, you lose your money.
Because they are high risk, binary options are prohibited for people in the European Union. The criminals lied to their victims by telling them that they were gambling on behalf of the company and that they were only gambling safely. In reality, however, your customers always lose their money.
After losing everything, the businessman went to the police. He wanted to complain that binary options betting was none of his business. Later, the forensic scientists explained to him that he had been the victim of fraud and that he had never made any money from the criminal scheme.
Another Bulgarian, from Sofia, was injured with 30,000 euros. Unlike the man from Varna, who stopped investing after his loss, the man first lost 5,000 euros. He invested again, this time 10,000, before pushing another 15,000 euros. Only then did he stop and point out that he was the victim of fraud.
Another Bulgarian lost 10,000 euros. The total number of victims in Bulgaria is over 20. Investigators insist that it is the same gang. The reason is in the many coincidences. All the victims were forced to download the remote access program to any desktop. Then they allegedly earn from “Space Ex” and “Apple” shares. Your losses always come from binary options.
There are many more victims of the scheme in Germany and Austria, according to the investigators’ operational data. they think
you are deceived
interpreted by
call centers,
that are found
in sofia
The reason is that the internet here is fast and the prices for labor and network maintenance are cheap. That is why the callers are Bulgarians. Usually they do not know that it is a schematic. They are instructed to speak only in English, even with Bulgarians, apparently on the pretext that the customer is more confident. They also give false names. The other reason was that the company that hires them is foreign, only the office is in Bulgaria.
The people behind the plan are believed to be Israelis. They are pioneers in this type of fraud. One of them, for more than 100 million euros, was even made by Sofía. It was the work of a group of Gal Barak Jews. The infrastructure of the organization’s sites, servers and others, was in Bulgaria and the Czech Republic. Participants believed they were risk-free and that insurers would pay them if they lost the investment. About 300 people worked in the two call centers in Sofia. They were questioned, but no one was charged because they were not part of the scheme, only workers. Barak is the only member of the gang detained in Bulgaria. His group was involved in a fraud against Germans and Austrians. Shortly after his arrest in 2019, the court extradited him to Austria.
However, Dimitar Moraliiski, Vasil Kostov and Alex Petrov began to work according to their scheme, assisted by the German Dominik Rauch. They had offices in our country and in Serbia. Unlike Barak’s gang and the new gang,
I did not want to
from people to
to invest
a lot of money or
again
They encouraged victims to register on their platform for digital trading of binary options and other financial instruments for a fee of 250 euros. They were unlicensed, they lied to people saying they had lost everything, but in fact they distributed their money quickly.
Thus, they managed to earn more than 80 million euros. His gang operated from Sofia and Serbia, operating frauds mainly in Austria and Germany.
The first group of this type of fraud, divided in Europe, also operated in Bulgaria. Its leader was the Jew David Menachem. He was the first torturer of such a gang in Europe to be arrested.
His companions, the Serbian Mihailo Matic and the Bulgarian Maria Velcheva, 28, were also captured with him. Of the three bands, they have the most modest turnover: 700 thousand euros, but the frauds were directed against the Bulgarians. Of the 30 victims investigators had information about, 13 declined to testify because they were embarrassed. The case against the group is pending in the Specialized Criminal Court.
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